Comment Re:pros and cons (Score 1) 800
If the Egyptians had had digital media, we wouldn't know much about them... unless, of course, they had etched inch-wide bits in stone.
With proper care, my vinyl can be passed on to future generations. And while I hope my crandchildren will have the sense to understand that Oingo-Boingo et al was a passing phase, I believe they will eventually come to appreciate Miles Davis, Dave Brubeck, The Academy of St. Martin-in-the-fields' and Neville Mariner's take on Mozart, Led Zeppelin, Tom Waits and even Rush. The list goes on. The point, however, is that if I owned these pieces of music in the form of microscopic pits in an aluminum film or as bits of electrical charge in a silicon device or as magnetized bits on a tape or platter, they would not survive.
With proper care, my vinyl can be passed on to future generations. And while I hope my crandchildren will have the sense to understand that Oingo-Boingo et al was a passing phase, I believe they will eventually come to appreciate Miles Davis, Dave Brubeck, The Academy of St. Martin-in-the-fields' and Neville Mariner's take on Mozart, Led Zeppelin, Tom Waits and even Rush. The list goes on. The point, however, is that if I owned these pieces of music in the form of microscopic pits in an aluminum film or as bits of electrical charge in a silicon device or as magnetized bits on a tape or platter, they would not survive.
